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[Sue Doh Nem] Recession Snacks
by Sue Doh Nem
May 14, 2008
Kunta ‘Rahsheed X’ Toby: “Unlock this door with the key of living life poor. Beyond the raggedy door is another dimension—one of insufficient funds in your bank account; a dimension of making ends meet in a recessive, price-inflated economy; a dimension of losing your broke, busted and disgusted mind. You’re moving into a place of both living from paycheck to paycheck and home foreclosure, high unemployment and hiring freezes, confusing Medicaid health options, and a vain, shallow and fearful society. You’ve just crossed over into the ‘Financially Challenged Twilight Zone!’”
(A bewildered Grandma Church Hat uses her Cootie Bug user-friendly cell phone for seniors to call the Ghetto Science Financially Challenged Crisis Hotline. She’s inside the Pork-N-Piggly supermarket with a pile of groceries at the checkout counter. Her debit card has been declined, due to insufficient funds. Boneqweesha Jones takes the call.)
Boneqweesha Jones: “What’s wrong, Grandma?”
Grandma Church Hat: “I’m broke and can’t make groceries! Price inflation in America is affecting my money. What should I do?”
Boneqweesha Jones: “Return those expensive pre-cooked, sweet-n-sour Oriental chicken wings marinated in sookie-sookie soy sauce, the bag of Super Cheesy-Cheese Doodles and the package of chocolate chip coconut candy bars!”
Grandma Church Hat: “Have mercy! The recessive economy is messing with my snacks. (She hangs up the phone and speed dials another number.) Hello. Is this the ‘Jesus Is On the Main Line Crisis Center?’ Please help a sister out!”
posted by on 05/14/08 at 04:49 PM. [printer-friendly version]
COMMENTS
[Kamikaze] The Media Fix Is In
J.T.: Amen to pushing a positive Jackson. And, yes, it is a movement. And, it is moving.
Aug 27, 2008 | 06:17 PM
Ban the Paddle?
ladd: A lot of kids in all our schools are "scary smart." Many just haven't had the chance to prove it, yet. On the not-know-how-to-ask-a-str anger-a-question point -- how many strangers are completely ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 05:33 PM
Ban the Paddle?
Tom Head: The kids I've met from the Jim Hill Civil Liberties Club are SCARY smart (they're not just the future; they're ready and able to get out and do stuff now), and the idea that anyone would consider ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 05:15 PM
Ban the Paddle?
ladd: you mentioned people should try to find out what is really going on with this generation. Damn right I did. And any given day, you will find up to 20 young people in their teens and 20s in my offices, ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 05:12 PM
Ban the Paddle?
ladd: Baquan, it's simple really: You generalized about all young people with statements like these: Discipline does not work any more on kids, whether it is beating them or putting them in time out. Young ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 04:49 PM
Ban the Paddle?
baquan2000: To Tom Head - lets just agree to disagree. You put yours in time out for stealing or cussing, while with mine, they will just have to meet their maker when they attempt to try it!? Sorry - I will ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 04:41 PM
Ban the Paddle?
baquan2000: Donna you did a good article a while back on this generation, where I think you mentioned people should try to find out what is really going on with this generation. Maybe what I said, was to ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 04:28 PM
Ban the Paddle?
Tom Head: Or for selling bad weed. Or for sleeping with your girlfriend. Or... Right. We teach the same pro-violence message with the Iraq War and the death penalty, too, not to mention when leaders go around ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 04:04 PM
Ban the Paddle?
ladd: That is a vast generalization about young people, baquan, and extremely offensive. I'm more impressed with young people today in their teens, and even tweens, than I ever have been. And the numbers bear ...
Aug 27, 2008 | 03:39 PM
Ban the Paddle?
baquan2000: after reading all the posts above; whatever it is we are doing; it is not working? Discipline does not work any more on kids, whether it is beating them or putting them in time out. Young men do ...
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